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Compatible Unicode Intrinsic Functions - CurEbcdicSize Method
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Length of the string in EBCDIC |
Member of Compatible Unicode Intrinsic Functions (PRIM_LIBI.ICompatibleUnicodeIntrinsics)
Parameters
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Result | *Result (Optional) | Integer | Returned size |
Details
CurEbcdicSize returns the number of bytes a string would require if it was running in an EBCDIC environment.
In a DBCS environment shift in and shift out bytes are used for DBCS values. These bytes are not used in ASCII. A string that may be short enough to fit in a variable in Windows may not fit when running on the IBM i.